# Finance Business Partner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/finance-business-partner/d6eac72b-7980-4251-97ec-c381e9ea1e0c - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/finance-business-partner/d6eac72b-7980-4251-97ec-c381e9ea1e0c.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - **Location:** St James's University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Finance business partner - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 to £77,368 a year - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-10-05T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-21T07:11:03.748Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9298-26-0990 - **Application URL:** https://vacancies.leedsteachinghospitals.jobs/Job/JobDetail?jobid=2165&source=JobtrainNHSJobs - **Employer website:** https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job summary Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an exceptional Finance Business Partner to join our Financial Management team. This is a senior and influential role, working closely with clinical and operational leaders to provide expert financial advice, strengthen financial performance and support the delivery of high-quality patient care. You will help leaders understand their financial position, identify risks and opportunities, develop robust plans and make informed decisions about the services they provide. We are looking for a fully qualified accountant who combines strong technical expertise and analytical insight with an inclusive and collaborative approach. You will be confident working with complex financial and activity information and able to communicate clearly with finance and non-finance colleagues. You will support the Assistant Director of Finance in leading and developing a team of accountants and finance professionals, creating an environment where colleagues feel supported, empowered and able to perform at their best. Working in partnership with Clinical Service Units (CSUs) and corporate services, you will ensure that financial reporting, forecasting, planning and advice are delivered consistently, accurately and to a high standard. ### Main duties of the job To succeed in this role, you will be a fully qualified CCAB accountant with extensive financial management experience and highly developed knowledge of accounting concepts, policies, procedures and financial systems. You will have experience of budget setting, forecasting, management reporting and providing detailed financial advice to senior management teams. Experience of managing and developing staff, delivering finance training and leading projects involving a range of stakeholders is also essential. You will be able to analyse and interpret highly complex information, compare different options and provide clear, evidence based recommendations. You will communicate confidently with colleagues at all levels, including senior managers, clinicians and directors, and will be able to influence, negotiate and respond constructively where priorities or views conflict. Most importantly, you will demonstrate: Inclusive and effective leadership. Strong professional judgement and personal accountability. The confidence to challenge and be challenged. A collaborative and patient focused approach. A commitment to quality, improvement and innovation. The ability to deliver at pace in a complex and changing environment. A strong commitment to continuing professional development. The ability to build strong, trusted relationships with clinical, operational and corporate colleagues. The Leeds Way values of being Responsible, Open and Honest, One Team and Kind in your everyday practice ### About us The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do. ### Details - Date posted: 21 September 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 8b - Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time - Reference number: 002162 - Job locations: St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7TF, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities For questions about this job, contact: Rebecca Monck Assistant Director of Finance Rebecca.Monck@nhs.net Job Summary Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an exceptional Finance Business Partner to join our Financial Management team. This is a senior and influential role, working closely with clinical and operational leaders to provide expert financial advice, strengthen financial performance and support the delivery of high-quality patient care. You will help leaders understand their financial position, identify risks and opportunities, develop robust plans and make informed decisions about the services they provide. We are looking for a fully qualified accountant who combines strong technical expertise and analytical insight with an inclusive and collaborative approach. You will be confident working with complex financial and activity information and able to communicate clearly with finance and non-finance colleagues. You will support the Assistant Director of Finance in leading and developing a team of accountants and finance professionals, creating an environment where colleagues feel supported, empowered and able to perform at their best. Working in partnership with Clinical Service Units (CSUs) and corporate services, you will ensure that financial reporting, forecasting, planning and advice are delivered consistently, accurately and to a high standard. Our work is guided by the Leeds Way values of Responsible, Open and Honest, One Team and Kind. We are looking for someone who shares these values, takes ownership, builds positive relationships, communicates openly and works collaboratively to improve services for patients. If you are an experienced finance leader who thrives on building partnerships, developing people, influencing decisions and driving improvement for patients, we would love to hear from you. Why you should join our Team This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest teaching hospitals in the NHS as well as an award winning Finance team, with a recently renewed level 3 towards excellence (FFF) accreditation. You will work closely with senior clinical and operational leaders, lead a team of finance professionals and have the opportunity to influence key decisions affecting large and complex services. If you are looking for a role where you will be part of a collaborative and progressive team where you can make a real difference in driving improvement, we would be delighted to hear from you. What you will bring to the role To succeed in this role, you will be a fully qualified CCAB accountant with extensive financial management experience and highly developed knowledge of accounting concepts, policies, procedures and financial systems. You will have experience of budget setting, forecasting, management reporting and providing detailed financial advice to senior management teams. Experience of managing and developing staff, delivering finance training and leading projects involving a range of stakeholders is also essential. You will be able to analyse and interpret highly complex information, compare different options and provide clear, evidence based recommendations. You will communicate confidently with colleagues at all levels, including senior managers, clinicians and directors, and will be able to influence, negotiate and respond constructively where priorities or views conflict. Most importantly, you will demonstrate: - Inclusive and effective leadership. - Strong professional judgement and personal accountability. - The confidence to challenge and be challenged. - A collaborative and patient focused approach. - A commitment to quality, improvement and innovation. - The ability to deliver at pace in a complex and changing environment. - A strong commitment to continuing professional development. - The ability to build strong, trusted relationships with clinical, operational and corporate colleagues. - The Leeds Way values of being Responsible, Open and Honest, One Team and Kind in your everyday practice, leadership and decision making. A clear demonstration of how your experiences are aligned to the requirements of the role and the person specification is expected throughout your application. Please see the attached job description and person specification for further information about this vacancy. About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trusts in Europe. We provide healthcare and specialist services for people from the city of Leeds, the Yorkshire and the Humber region and beyond. We play an important role in the training and education of medical, nursing and dental students, and are a centre for world class research, innovation and pioneering new treatments. The Trust has an annual budget of more than £2.2 billion and employs around 20,000 staff. Last year, we treated close to 1.8 million patients, including 109,000 inpatient admissions, 1.3 million outpatient attendances and 359,000 attendances in our Emergency Departments. Our care and clinical expertise is delivered from seven hospitals on five sites, all joined by our vision to be the best for specialist and integrated care. Our Trust values The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients. We are…. Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind Our Trust priorities Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time Our priorities: People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here. We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Highly developed in depth specialist knowledge of accounting concepts, conventions, policies and procedures and the requirements of the NHS financial regime and the legislative framework within which it operates; underpinned by both theoretical knowledge and practical experience. - Awareness of current NHS priorities. - Advanced knowledge of financial ledgers and finance software business tools. - Knowledge of the NHS Costing Manual and the requirements of the annual Reference Cost exercise. - A good understanding of the nature of NHS financial flows, including Payment by Results and its implications for the income of a CSU. - Knowledge of common NHS activity information and measures of productivity and awareness of problems and potential shortcomings. - Highly developed in depth specialist knowledge of accounting concepts, conventions, policies and procedures. - It is essential to have specialist knowledge of financial and accounting procedures, financial aspects of NHS legislation and NHS finance policies from both a practical application and theoretical knowledge. ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive experience in providing impartial detailed financial advice and information to management teams, obtaining engagement and ensuring key financial concepts and issues are clearly understood. - Experience of working in financial management roles including the areas of budget setting and financial planning; financial reporting to business units; detailed use of financial systems to provide and manipulate information; detailed procedures around capital, VAT and research and development. - Experience of the QA of both information and advice given by other colleagues. - Experience of leading cross-cutting projects and collaboration with other stakeholders to improve performance. - Experience of managing staff and delivering finance training. - Extensive experience in providing impartial detailed financial advice and information to management teams to business units. - Experience of working in financial management roles including the areas of budget setting and financial planning; financial reporting. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Full Professional Accountancy Qualification (CCAB or CIMA). - Full Professional Accountancy qualification (CCAB or CIMA qualified, equivalent to Masters level qualification). - 5 GCSE/O levels or equivalent, to include Maths and English. ### Other Requirements **Essential** - The jobholder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for his/her own personal development by ensuring that Continuous Professional Development remains a priority. - The jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role. - The post holder is required to use a VDU more or less continuously on most days. - The jobholder is frequently required to sit for long periods of time at a VDU in order to work on complicated spread sheets and is required to rapidly and accurately manipulate large volumes of complex financial data into meaningful information/analyses to tight deadlines. - The post holder may at times experience colleagues strongly expressing opposing views to policies and procedures that must be upheld by the Finance Function. This requires staff to have a high degree of self-confidence and personal resilience and the emotional maturity to respond in appropriately measured ways. - The post will have a primary base at SJUH... there will be a need for post holders to work at a site different to their main base, visit external organisations and support a number of different areas/cover for colleague absences. ### Communication and Relationship Skills **Essential** - An ability to deal with highly complex issues with a wide range of parties including colleagues both finance and non-finance from all levels of seniority up to board level directors and including clinicians. - These issues may be contentious and sensitive and require appropriate negotiation and persuasion skills needed to convey financial concepts clearly and persuasively, often to large groups of staff. - Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing, including an ability to chair meetings and deliver presentations, conveying complex financial processes and practices so allowing managers to better understand their responsibilities. - Ability to respond appropriately to challenge within situations in which there are conflicting priorities and strongly expressed opposing views. - Ability to adapt information to engage a range of stakeholders. - The ability to negotiate, influence and challenge senior colleagues. - Demonstration of effective stakeholder management, with an ongoing commitment to building and maintaining strong and effective partnerships and collaborations. ### Personal Qualities, Behaviours and Values **Essential** - A preparedness to take responsibility and work autonomously demonstrating a commitment to delivering results, a quality service and delivering at pace. - A commitment to knowing and understanding the business. - A customer focus, acknowledging the importance of service quality and the need to add value to customers, monitoring quality and acting upon feedback appropriately. - Creative and innovative, able to propose and develop changes to working practices and procedures to ensure the continual improvement of the services. - Commitment to supporting change and improvement, able to make connections and link pieces of work to maximise the achievement of multiple objectives. - Commitment to reviewing own performance, assessing own strengths and weaknesses, taking corrective action and identifying areas for personal development, with strong commitment to and evidence of continuing professional development. - The ability to stand up for a personal point of view, even against articulate and powerful opposition. - Commitment to behaving honestly, openly, impartially and fairly. - Able to develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues, budget holders and other managers, working as part of multidisciplinary teams. - Has adaptive strategies for dealing with colleagues and team members who oppose and challenge the requirements of good corporate governance and the need to meet statutory financial requirements. - The ability to take responsibility for own workload and being responsible for a range of complex activities, planning ahead taking into account known requirements throughout the financial year, working flexibly, re-assessing priorities and dealing with a range of competing and changing demands, tight deadlines and a frequently pressurised environment. - Commitment to behaving honestly, openly, impartially and fairly in accordance with the Leeds Way Values. - A confident, pleasant approach, willing to develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues, budget holders and other managers, working as part of multidisciplinary teams. - Has a personal coping strategy for dealing with colleagues who oppose and challenge the requirements of good corporate governance and the need to meet statutory financial requirements. ### Leadership, Management and Training Skills **Essential** - Experience of managing staff and delivering finance training, with knowledge including the techniques, required to lead, motivate, develop and maximise performance of staff. - Ability to lead support staff, delivering support, coaching, training, organising recruitment activities, appraisals and dealing with disciplinary/absence issues. - Evidence of commitment to learning and development and continuous improvement, including demonstrating personal continuing professional development. - Ability to provide training to others on specialist areas of responsibility. - The ability to manage staff, lead team building, coach and motivate colleagues. - The ability to secure engagement through an inclusive leadership style and the confidence and ability to challenge, negotiate and influence. - The ability to secure engagement with well-developed leadership and confident but pleasant communication skills, willing to challenge and be challenged. ### Analytical, Judgement, Planning and Organisational Skills **Essential** - Ability to make judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options, frequently operating in areas of work where there may be a conflict of opinions. - Ability to plan long term financial targets and organise workloads to deliver against challenging timescales. - Ability to work autonomously, interpreting and being guided by broad occupational policies and standards. - Ability to review ways of working, develop and implement policies and procedures and to maintain a consistent approach across the organisation as appropriate. - Ability to set baseline budgets and forecasts. - The ability to take responsibility for own workload and being responsible for a range of complex activities. - The ability to work within an area which requires the post holder to react quickly to the financial requirements of the CSU. - The ability to make effective decisions, making judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options, frequently operating in areas of work where there may be a conflict of opinions. ## Documents - [Job Description and Person Specification (DOC, KB)](https://vacancies.leedsteachinghospitals.jobs/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=3959&JobId=2165) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.